Federal sport minister Greg Hunt announced the change as part of a National Sports Plan (NSP) to set up a single, independent tribunal for doping, match fixing and integrity cases.

Minister Hunt told ABC's The Ticket he would consider modelling it on the international Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

He said he would speak to CAS president and Australian Olympic supremo, John Coates, about how a similar system could be set up here.

The international sports court already has authority here.

In 2016 it over-ruled the findings of the AFL's own tribunal in the high profile Essendon supplements scandal.

Sports wary of losing their individual sovereignty

After meeting with Mr Hunt the chief executives of Cricket Australia (CA), the National Rugby League (NRL) and Football Federation Australia (FFA) were united in their reservations when asked about the NIT.

"There's no doubt that as sports we support the Federal Government's push to improve the integrity inside sport," NRL boss Todd Greenberg said.

The original finding was overruled, and bans were imposed on the players involved.

"You won't attract those calibre of people on that basis so there's lots to think through on that," Gallop said.

"I think Greg Hunt made it very clear that he's only in an early stage of this and he wants to hear from us, so he'll give us the time to do that."'

CA chief executive James Sutherland said the plan for the NIT has its limits.

"The minister is in a challenged position because he's tried to adopt these principals around integrity but also, it seems to us perhaps, adopting a cookie cutter approach across all of sports," Sutherland said.

"A number of major professional sports such as ours already have their own independent tribunal structures in place where as smaller sporting organisations, that perhaps aren't as well funded, don't necessarily have those same opportunities and that's where we're probably a little more advanced.

"The merits of having a one stop shop, so to speak, I think certainly needs a lot more exploration."

There is a period of consultation on the National Sports Plan open until July 31.